Documenta11

Several exhibition spaces, Kassel

Projects and works of more than 100 international artists of every generation will be presented. The exhibition includes pieces of every type of media: sculpture and drawing, photography and architecture, film, video, sound- and internetworks, performance and concert.

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From June 8th until September 15th 2002 Documenta11 will take place in several exhibition spaces in Kassel.
Projects and works of more than 100 international artists of every generation will be presented. The exhibition includes pieces of every type of media: sculpture and drawing, photography and architecture, film, video, sound- and internetworks, performance and concert.

Most of the works were specially created for Documenta11, and many of the artists are showing comprehensive and complex exhibits. These projects are often multimedial, and they combine various forms of presentation.

Over the period of 100 days, installations will become workshops, or be turned into offices, or stages for performances and locations of interaction. In addition there will be temporary
projects including plays for the theater, concerts, or performances that will take place at arranged dates and times.

Finally, some artists and groups with works that generally have a communicative approach will hold public presentations and will directly involve the audience in this aspect of their work. These events are an essential part of the Documenta11 exhibition.

Artistic director of Documenta11: Okwui Enwezor.

Insistently transnational, interdisciplinary and transgenerational in its concerns, the broad artistic and critical scope of Documenta11 was devised by Enwezor and his team of six
co-curators, Carlos Basualdo, Ute Meta Bauer, Susanne Ghez, Sarat Maharaj, Mark Nash, and Octavio Zaya, who were introduced to the public on October 12, 2000.

Nari Ward
*1963 in St. Andrews, Jamaica. Lives in New York, New York, USA.

Yang Fudong
*1971 in Beijing, China. Lives in Shanghai, China.

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Documenta11_Program
William Kentridge

On June 8 and June 9, 2002, as part of Platform5 of Documenta11, the theater-performance
Confessions of Zeno by participating artist William Kentridge will take place at the
Staatstheater Kassel.

Based on Italo Svevos novel La Coscienza di Zeno, the multimedia theater production
explores experiences of labor and erotic pleasures of the European bourgeoisie prior to
World War I. Combining puppetry, song, theatrical acting, a string quartet, and video, the
production is a collaboration between artist William Kentridge, the Handspring Puppet
Company, composer Kevin Volans, and writer Jane Taylor.

Tickets for the event ( 40 / 50 ) are available at the box office of the Staatstheater
Kassel.

Reductions are available to: students, welfare recipients, unemployed and retired guests,
military conscripts and those performing civil service, and handicapped visitors. The ID
necessary for reductions need to be presented when entering the exhibition, not at point of
sale.

Tickets are available every day of the Documenta11 at the ticket centers. Starting from
December 2001 you can order coupons at the office.

Service for disabled people
If you need informations concerning our service for disabled people please contact us via
phone, fax or e-mail under:
tel: +49-561-70727 0
fax: +49-561-70727 39
e-mail: ms@documenta.de

Publications
Each of the fÃ­ve platforms of Documenta11 including the exhibition in Kassel will accompanied
by a publication, published by Hatje Cantz Verlag , Stuttgart.

Accomodation in Kassel
Due to the number of requests the Kassel Service GmbH will be happy to help you organizing
your accomodation during your stay in Kassel, please contact: